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We've had some excellent reports coming from the mid-Severn in recent days. Congrats to yakscientist for his 29 incher and to Bruce for catching keepers in the mid-Severn. I can assure you I have covered the same areas they traveled during several outings in the past week or so. I have caught 12 to 14 inchers and only one legal striper during those outings. Kudos to them for finding the big fish. It's encouraging that bigger fish appear to be moving into the Jonas Green area, although their appearances are fleeting.
Today I had help covering the river. On the fly (Harry), Harlan, John Veil and Don Vance and I left no areas between the bridges uncovered -- east side, west side, in the middle and even north of the Route 50 Bridge. Together, thanks to John, we managed to catch one legal-sized striper. Ironically, John spent the least time on the water of any of us. Harlan got a respectable 18 incher and a couple of 15s.
Here is his 18 incher:
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Notice Harlan changed the trebles on his Rat-L-Trap to single in-line hooks.
I had only one 12 inch striper to show for my efforts which I shook off in the water.
That was a lot of kayak angling experience and know-how attacking the Severn today and the big stripers, save one, managed to avoid us. I covered 8 miles by myself. I'm sure the other guys did comparable mileage.
Of course the perch aimed to please as always and we counted them in dozens. Today I had 3 dozen on a jig spinner. Some of the other guys also registered dozens of perch each. They gave us consistent action when the stripers did not.
We launched from Jonas between 0630 and 0700 to high water. John joined us perhaps 90 minutes to 2 hours later in the morning. Immediately noticeable was debris from last night's storm. The river had pockets of floating branches, grass, leaves and sadly, plastic garbage. At one point I accidentally ran over a partially submerged five gallon bucket.
Here's a look at some of the dirty water:
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I had a hard time keeping my jigs clean while trolling which indicated storm debris was churned up throughout the water column.
But the high water made for some great perch areas. Like this one:
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Perch love the shade and the grass. I nailed 10 in that one area, including one that was 11 inches.
So that's a summary of our Severn trip from Jonas Green today. Sometimes it's striper hot. Sometimes it's not.
Today I had help covering the river. On the fly (Harry), Harlan, John Veil and Don Vance and I left no areas between the bridges uncovered -- east side, west side, in the middle and even north of the Route 50 Bridge. Together, thanks to John, we managed to catch one legal-sized striper. Ironically, John spent the least time on the water of any of us. Harlan got a respectable 18 incher and a couple of 15s.
Here is his 18 incher:
FullSizeRender.jpg
Notice Harlan changed the trebles on his Rat-L-Trap to single in-line hooks.
I had only one 12 inch striper to show for my efforts which I shook off in the water.
That was a lot of kayak angling experience and know-how attacking the Severn today and the big stripers, save one, managed to avoid us. I covered 8 miles by myself. I'm sure the other guys did comparable mileage.
Of course the perch aimed to please as always and we counted them in dozens. Today I had 3 dozen on a jig spinner. Some of the other guys also registered dozens of perch each. They gave us consistent action when the stripers did not.
We launched from Jonas between 0630 and 0700 to high water. John joined us perhaps 90 minutes to 2 hours later in the morning. Immediately noticeable was debris from last night's storm. The river had pockets of floating branches, grass, leaves and sadly, plastic garbage. At one point I accidentally ran over a partially submerged five gallon bucket.
Here's a look at some of the dirty water:
P1010820.jpg P1010828.jpg
I had a hard time keeping my jigs clean while trolling which indicated storm debris was churned up throughout the water column.
But the high water made for some great perch areas. Like this one:
P1010827.jpg
Perch love the shade and the grass. I nailed 10 in that one area, including one that was 11 inches.
So that's a summary of our Severn trip from Jonas Green today. Sometimes it's striper hot. Sometimes it's not.
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